It's a big week for opera birthdays, readers! On January 25, 1817, Rossini's La Cenerentola premiered in Rome - and mezzos have been drilling their coloratura ever since. If you're a Canadian opera fan, you might remember back in 2018, when the Canadian Opera Company...
Canadians Juliane Gallant and Jennifer Tung have been announced as the first conductors to join the new Women in Musical Leadership fellowship program led by Toronto's Tapestry Opera. Designed as a professional opportunity meant to expand the talent pool of musical...
This is the first in a new series of Q&As with the artists of Canada's opera scene. After our "Quarantine Questions" from the spring/summer of 2020, we're checking in once again with these artists as they share new perspectives on mid-pandemic opera. First up:...
Note: this article was originally published on Schmopera.com, and is being reprinted here with permission by the author. There was a funny little anecdotal post on r/opera, about the habits of basses during curtain calls. "I have noticed this in many performances,...
VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert is making an exciting debut into the digital world, with its upcoming double-bill of La voix humaine (The Human Voice), presented online from February 5-19, 2021. Poulenc's chamber opera is a popular choice in pandemic-era opera-making. It's...
This month, get Canadian about your Nightly Met Opera Streams! We're into weeks 45 and 46 - can you believe it? - respectively titled, "Leading Ladies: Opera's Greatest Heroines" and "The Antiheroes". Here at Opera Canada, we're on the ready for Canadians at the Met...
Note: this article was originally published in 2017 on Schmopera.com, and is being reprinted here with permission by the author. When we go to the opera, what we see onstage is the result of a complicated system of task delegation; some folks do the singing, others...
Canadian baritone Louis Quilico would have been 96 today. He had the kind of career that most baritones dream of, finding an organic fit in Verdi's operas: Germont in La traviata, Renato in Un ballo in maschera, Iago in Otello, Macbeth in Macbeth, and of course, the...
It's the understatement of the century to say that 2020 was...action-packed. Amid it all came an important piece of good news: Opera Canada magazine turned 60! It's an extraordinary thing for an opera-centric magazine to reach its sixth decade of publication, and...
City Opera Vancouver presents its first online opera, with The Human Voice, an adaptation of the 1928 play by Cocteau and the 1958 opera by Poulenc. In this contemporary take on La voix humaine, a woman's one-sided telephone conversation with her lover changes gender...
Hi, Canadian opera lovers! Jenna here. You might know me from Opera Canada's social media channels, where I've been spending time over the last year or so as the magazine's Social Media Manager. Starting this month, you'll hear from me a lot more, as I'm taking on a...
Following a 2020 season of digital and live shows that reached over 5,000 pairs of eyes and offered work for Canadian artists, Tapestry Opera’s Winter 2021 lineup continues to offer innovation to Toronto's opera landscape. Founded in 1979, Tapestry is an...